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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Niños de la Memoria (Children of Memory)

Niños de la Memoria tells the story of the search for hundreds of
children who disappeared during the Salvadoran Civil War. Many were
survivors of massacres carried out by the U.S. trained Salvadoran
army. Taken away from the massacre sites by soldiers, some grew up
in orphanages or were adopted abroad, losing their history and
identity. Niños de la Memoria weaves together three separate yet
intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice
in El Salvador, and asks the larger question: How can a post-war
society right the wrongs of the past? Producer Kathryn Smith Pyle
is a Sundance Institute Fellow whose former career as a grantmaker
in the U.S. and Latin America was dedicated to grassroots
development and giving voice to marginalized communities, often
through community media projects.